I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it, and am in agony. (Catullus)
You can be young without money but you can't be old without it. (Tennessee Williams)
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility. (Michael Korda)
But all who humble themselves before the Lord shall be given every blessing and shall have wonderful peace. (Psalm 3711 TLB Bible)
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny. (Eric Hoffer)
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. (Baltasar Gracian)
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by winds and waters and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do. (Roosevelt, Eleanor)
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. (Anais Nin)
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost. (Ferdinand Foch)
I've learned that when I wave to people in the country, they stop what they are doing and wave back. (Child Age 9)
Life is real Life is earnest And the grave is not its goal Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
You may use different sorts of sentences and illustrations before different sorts of audiences, but you don't -- if you are wise -- talk down to any audience. (Norman Thomas)
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. (Johann von Goethe)
The unnatural, that too is natural. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide. (Henry David Thoreau)
Advice to writers Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin. (Stanislaw Lec)
Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to. (Joe Gores)
Correction does much, but encouragement does more. (Johann von Goethe)
If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen. (Sam James Ervin, Jr.)